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Sir,
I beg now to bring to your attention and the notice your honorable Minister the enclosed complaints from Mersine(?) and Jarsus(?). I have endeavored in every way possible to temporize and stare off trouble, but it loot at this distance as if it is impossible. From the number of demands and threats and demonstrations on the past of the governor of Adaua(?) and from the closing of churches and schools at Beylace(?) and Anistab(?) it appears that the Armenians question and other difficulties are on...

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No 51 United States Consulate
Beirut December 25 1894

Honorable Luther Ghost
Consul General of the United States
Constantinople
Sir,

[five x marks]
I log now to bring to your
attention and the notice of our honorable
Minister the enclosed complaints from
[Mersine?] and Tarsus. I have endeavored
in every way possible to temporize
and stave off trouble, but it looks at
this distance as if it is impossible from
the number of demands and threats and
demonstrations on the past of the [place?]
of [Adava?] and from the closing of churches
and schools at [Beylav?] and [Asintab?] it
appears that the Armenian question
and other difficulties are on in this festival,
not with the violence and activity that
mark affairs in the far interior had with
sufficient force to alarm our missionaries
and to call for the powerful protection